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MANUFACTURER
High-resolution digital audio recording and editing systems Merging Technologies is one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of high-resolution digital audio recording systems. Its list of customers reads like a who’s who in the recording industry and recordings made with Merging Technologies’ systems regularly receive the prestigious Grammy Award. The company was founded in 1990 in Chexbres, Switzerland by Claude Cellier, an electronics graduate of the Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Cellier worked for the famous Swiss audio maker Nagra Kudelski for 10 years. Though Nagra has since diversified, its roots lie in the professional audio industry
and Ovation. What sets them apart
introduced the ANEMAN audio network
where its products are respected as
are their exceptional sound quality
manager to handle the routing and
workhorses, providing first-class audio
and superior editing capabilities.
administration of larger audio networks.
performance. Cellier played a pivotal
Quick to recognise the advantages
This year sees the introduction of
of audio over IP, Merging introduced
a new version of the very popular
In a short span, Merging established a
its first RAVENNA interface in 2012.
Anubis Mission Controller which will
reputation for expertise in digital signal
Not only was Horus an astounding
be additionally, ST2022-7 compliant.
processing and associated hardware
advance in connectivity, it rapidly
Anubis is a compact RAVENNA/AES67
and with its Pyramix Virtual Studio, was
gained an incredible reputation for
I/O unit with dual preamp architecture.
one of the first fully featured DAWs to
the transparency of its conversion and
Designed to operate on its own or as
be accepted into broadcast and post-
the quality of its mic preamps. The
part of a larger system, this revolutionary
production environments. Constant
modularity was retained for the smaller
unit has built-in network management
updates have ensured that all workflows
Hapi unit released later. Both products
capabilities as well as remarkable
including the latest immersive audio
are now AES67, NMOS and ST2110
connectivity for a small form factor.
solutions are available with Pyramix
compliant and recently the company
role in their design and development.
Hapi MKII is available with ST2022-7
